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On The Lambda

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On The Lambda is a personal blog at onthelambda.com about data and programming. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How to fake a sophisticated knowledge of wine with Markov Chains”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2013–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2013

another blog by a data scientist

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to fake a sophisticated knowledge of wine with Markov Chains
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. see also: https://www.onthelambda.com/2014/02/20/how-to-fake-a-sophist...

    Comment linking /2014/02/20/how-to-fake-a-sophisticated-knowledge-of-wine-with-markov-chains/

    on “Uncanny Valley Vineyards – wine reviews by GPT2 might surprise you”
  2. Submitted How to fake a sophisticated knowledge of wine with Markov Chains as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  3. "Doing stuff" for developers often includes installing and running packages such as databases, programming languages, editors, etc. On OS X, there is only an App Store built-in. You have to choose one of many package managers[1]. Each package may get installed in its own non-standard way. Linux distributions like Debian or Arch have standardized package managers which handle dependencies and updates much more smooth…

    Comment linking /2013/10/14/the-state-of-package-management-on-mac-os-x/

    on “Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?”
  4. Submitted How to fake a sophisticated knowledge of wine with Markov Chains as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Qstats – quick and dirty statistics tool for the Unix pipeline as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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